After the last cabinet meeting on October 3, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry and Petroleum Minister Ghulam Sarwar had announced that Saudi Arabia will construct an oil refinery in Gwadar and that approval for PM House to be converted into high-level university was given.

Further, the cabinet had also accorded approval for appointments of new members in the Ministry of Finance and the fiscal and monetary policy boards and had decided to remove the illegal appointments made by former finance minister Ishaq Dar.